Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Administrator's Reference

DSMFMT (Formatting Files for the Server)

Use the DSMFMT utility to create files for the TSM database, recovery log, or storage pool volumes. The parameters positional but not case-sensitive.

Note:For performance reasons, allocate database, recovery log, and storage pool volumes on disk drives that reside on the TSM server machine, not on remotely mounted file systems.

Syntax

                           .--------------------.
             .- -data--.   V                    |
>>-dsmfmt----+---------+------file_name--size---+--------------><
             +- -db----+
             +- -log---+
             '- -data--'
 

Parameters

file_type
Specifies the type of file to be formatted. Possible values are:

-db
Specifies the file is to be a database volume.

-log
Specifies the file is to be a recovery log volume.

-data
Specifies the file is to be a storage pool volume. This is the default.

file_name (Required)
Specifies the name of the file to be formatted.

size (Required)
Specifies as an integer, the size of the file to be formatted. For database and recovery log files, the allocated file size is always a multiple of 4MB (plus an additional 1MB for overhead). The minimum file sizes are 9MB for the recovery log, 5MB for the database, and 1MB for data storage files

Examples

Task 1
Format two recovery log volumes having 9MB of storage each:
dsmfmt -log logvol1 9 logvol2 9

Task 2
Format a database volume having 5MB of storage:
dsmfmt -db dbvol1 5

Task 3
Format storage volumes backvol and archvol having 21MB and 9MB of storage respectively:
dsmfmt -data backvol 21 archvol 9


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